Kathleen E. Dubs (1944–2011) was a university professor, mediaevalist and literary historian. She was born an American, but after the first half of her academic career she moved to Eger, Hungary, and worked at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary and Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia, until her death in 2011. The year 2024 marked her 80th birthday anniversary. This book, compiled from papers produced over 2024–2025, written by her former colleagues and other scholars in honour of her memory and on themes close to her fields of academic interest, aims to pay tribute to Kathleen’s achievements and exceptional personality. It is a posthumous festschrift, brought to life as a cooperation of scholars from Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, that seeks to promote her figure as one whose academic activity crossed borders in several senses of the word.
Edited by Katalin Balogné Bérces (PPCU & KU), Janka Kaščáková (KU & Olomouc), Tomáš Kačer (MUNI).
Published by Verbum Ružomberok. ISBN 978–80–561–1171–0 (print), ISBN 978–80–561–1172–7 (online)
Contributions from our (former) colleagues:
Countries, Scholars and Genres in Tribute to Kathleen E. Dubs: An Introduction - pp. 9–12
Katalin Balogné Bérces, Janka Kaščáková and Tomáš Kačer
László Munteán’s Letter to Kathleen - pp. 13–14
Tolkienesque Elements in Etelka Görgey’s Mythopoetical Science Fiction - pp. 33–47
Ildikó Limpár
“Where It Was Not” – Varieties of Mindscapes in Fantastic Fiction - pp. 48–64
Károly Pintér
From Gentle Wit to Venomous Bites: Benjamin Franklin’s “Industry” of Marketing Ideas - pp. 87–103
Beatrix Balogh
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: h-dropping in the Early History of English - pp. 179–194
Katalin Balogné Bérces and Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
Developing L2 English Essay Writing Skills at the C1 Level: A Focus on the Process - pp. 216–232
Csilla Sárdi
The project was supported by the Visegrad Fund's grant #22420198.
